[v1r]

The Darwin Award goes to Argentina. There, a local thief tried to cut a copper cable from a transformer that distributes electricity to a residential area.

[Xploit Machine]

[HighVoltage22]

Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

[winvens]

At least he has pretty pink nail polish now -- oh wait.

[Trucked up]

Fuck, only pics?? I would've loved to see video of that!!!

[corpsehands]

Gonna be awful hard to steal copper with one hand.

[v1r]

Originally Posted by Trucked up ↗

Fuck, only pics?? I would've loved to see video of that!!!

First photo looks like it could be from a video to me, but I only found the images.

[Faust]

Looks like he had surgery before. Anyway, I feel a bit of remorse for copper thieves, they still steal but it is not like they are robbing a person at gunpoint or stealing a little kid his savings or a family their car

[zeb247]

Originally Posted by winvens ↗

At least he has pretty pink nail polish now -- oh wait.

I had the same thought.

[kellyhound]

The residents of the "El Chivero" neighborhood ended the weekend wrapped in darkness after a man, identified as MMA (40 years old) tried to cut the cables of a transformer and caused an explosion that left three blocks away without electricity. area. The man suffered injuries from the accident and had to be hospitalized.

The event occurred on Sunday, after 11:30 p.m., when MMA climbed onto a light transformer located at the intersection of Venezuela streets and República de Líbano avenue. When trying to cut the cables with a pliers, he generated an explosion that left the interior of the houses without electricity for more than five hours and caused the man to fall from approximately ten meters high and suffer traumatisms.

The case became known in Tucumán from a WhatsApp audio sent by a neighbor, nicknamed "El Sapo", which circulated throughout the province. In the voice message, the man recounted what happened in a derogatory way and was surprised that MMA had survived the electric shock.

“It's been an awesome blowout; The sound was so loud that he thought someone had crashed and hit the transformer,” said Diego Campbell, a neighbor who lives on the block behind the transformer.

Once they heard the noise and the lights in the houses went out, the neighbors came out worried to see what had happened and found the man lying on the sidewalk.

“We don't understand how he managed to survive, beyond the explosion; he fell from a significant height and the floor was covered with stones. He was left all hurt, with black hands, and had a split head and eye area; he was completely bloody, ”said Diego.

According to the witnesses, MMA was on the ground for half an hour until the Police and the emergency system arrived.

“At first he was lying on the floor for about five minutes, he seemed dead. But then he got up and stayed seated until an officer with a nurse took him in the ambulance, ”explained Juan Azar.

Cable theft aggravates insecurity

Once the man was transferred to the Padilla hospital, the residents had to wait until five in the morning without electricity while EDET repaired the damage. "The funniest thing is that there was light outside but inside our houses we were in the dark," said Estela G.

That night, police personnel from the sixth sectional police station appeared at the place to help the wounded man.

“live passing”

The inhabitants of El Chivero denounced that cable theft is common in the area, not only for public lighting, but also for the private service of each home. “This is common currency, they live by walking on the roofs and balconies at any time and taking the cables to get the copper out of them,” Diego said.

In the neighborhood there are several people who have kiosks and who are affected by power cuts, since they do not have a private generator. “All of us who have warehouses run the risk that the products that need to comply with their cold chain will go bad, especially in summer; So this affects us and it is the third time it has happened in four months,” Estela claimed.

In addition to the theft of cables, the residents denounced that the bronze tubes of the gas meters, the handles of the doors and entrance gates and even the lampshades, the turtles, the spotlights and the number plates were stolen.

“I had to put a padlock on the cover of the gas meter and leave a window, so they can take a reading so they don't take the tube back,” said Maximiliano, owner of a store located on the avenue.

“I also started taking out the bulbs every time we closed the business because I got tired of them being stolen from me,” he added.

MMA continues to be admitted to the Padilla hospital, out of danger. For his part, the Justice reported that at the moment they had not accused him of any crime because no one reported the fact. In principle, a robbery would not have been consummated.